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Tomas F. Domingues

Tomas F. Domingues

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
8536
World Ranking
5744
National Ranking
102

Overview

Tomas F. Domingues is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and plant science.

Their work extensively covers several subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science

Key topics in their research include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Plant Responses to Elevated CO2
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Tomas F. Domingues has contributed to several notable publications. Frequent venues for their research include:

  • Tree Physiology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers by Tomas F. Domingues include:

  • "Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity" (2022, Nature)
  • "The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset" (2022, Scientific Data)
  • "Convergence in phosphorus constraints to photosynthesis in forests around the world" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Plant traits controlling growth change in response to a drier climate" (2020, New Phytologist)
  • "Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry" (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)

Frequent co-authors in Tomas F. Domingues' work are:

  • Rafael S. Oliveira
  • Patrick Meir
  • Raquel C. Miatto
  • Elmar Veenendaal
  • Carlos Alberto Quesada

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Height-diameter allometry of tropical forest trees

    T.R. Feldpausch;L. Banin;O.L. Phillips;T.R. Baker

  • Tree height integrated into pantropical forest biomass estimates

    T. R. Feldpausch;J. Lloyd;J. Lloyd;S. L. Lewis;S. L. Lewis;R. J. W. Brienen

  • The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits – Vcmax and Jmax – to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study

    Anthony P. Walker;Anthony P. Walker;Andrew P. Beckerman;Lianhong Gu;Jens Kattge

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

    Edward T.A. Mitchard;Ted R. Feldpausch;Ted R. Feldpausch;Roel J.W. Brienen;Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez

  • Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

    T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;R. J. W. Brienen;E. Gloor

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition

    Katrin Fleischer;Anja Rammig;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

    Ethan E. Butler;Abhirup Datta;Habacuc Flores-Moreno;Ming Chen

  • Co-limitation of photosynthetic capacity by nitrogen and phosphorus in West Africa woodlands.

    Thomas Ferreira Domingues;Patrick Meir;Ted R. Feldpausch;Gustavo Saiz

  • Model–data synthesis for the next generation of forest free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiments

    Richard J. Norby;Martin G. De Kauwe;Tomas F. Domingues;Remko A. Duursma

  • Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment.

    Nicholas G. Smith;Nicholas G. Smith;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;I. Colin Prentice;Han Wang

  • Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity

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  • The stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of vegetation in tropical forests of the Amazon Basin, Brazil

    Jean P. H. B. Ometto;James R. Ehleringer;Tomas F. Domingues;Joseph A. Berry

  • A test of the ‘one‐point method’ for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field‐measured, light‐saturated photosynthesis

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Yan-Shih Lin;Ian J. Wright;Belinda E. Medlyn

  • 15N NATURAL ABUNDANCE IN WOODY PLANTS AND SOILS OF CENTRAL BRAZILIAN SAVANNAS (CERRADO)

    Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante;Luiz Antonio Martinelli;D. A Silva;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo

  • Photosynthetically relevant foliar traits correlating better on a mass vs an area basis: of ecophysiological relevance or just a case of mathematical imperatives and statistical quicksand?

    Jon Lloyd;Jon Lloyd;Keith Bloomfield;Keith Bloomfield;Tomas Ferreira Domingues;Graham D. Farquhar

  • On the delineation of tropical vegetation types with an emphasis on forest/savanna transitions

    Mireia Torello-Raventos;Ted R. Feldpausch;Elmar Veenendaal;Franziska Schrodt

  • Variation in soil carbon stocks and their determinants across a precipitation gradient in West Africa

    Gustavo Saiz;Gustavo Saiz;Michael I. Bird;Tomas Domingues;Franziska Schrodt

  • Leaf‐level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high‐elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru

    Nur H. A. Bahar;F. Yoko Ishida;Lasantha K. Weerasinghe;Lasantha K. Weerasinghe;Rossella Guerrieri;Rossella Guerrieri

  • Ecophysiological traits of plant functional groups in forest and pasture ecosystems from eastern Amazônia, Brazil

    Tomas F. Domingues;Tomas F. Domingues;Luiz A. Martinelli;James R. Ehleringer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Patrick Meir
Patrick Meir University of Edinburgh
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
Carlos A. Quesada
Carlos A. Quesada National Institute of Amazonian Research
Gustavo Saiz
Gustavo Saiz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto
Jean Pierre Henry Balbaud Ometto National Institute for Space Research
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah

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